Saturday November 4th - Melkweg Amsterdam NL - Gong Family Unconvention - An unparalleled and inspiring event that is already legendary! On the Saturday dance night we played with Eat Static, Slack Baba and Chris Purusha. Our system 7 live set came after an amazing 15 minute jam with Eat Static!

Friday January 21st - Exeter (UK) - Phoenix - A very successful return to the Future Sound of Exeter - (a Tsunami distaster benefit)
Saturday January 22nd - Portsmouth (UK) - Deltawave @ The Wedgewood Rooms A brilliant night was had by all. System 7 made a great bunch of new friends!
Thursday February 10th - Glasgow (Scotland) - King Tut's - With DJ Alex Smoke (Slam / Soma Records) and a 1 hour Steve Hillage DJ set in addition to the System 7 live set.
Thursday March 17th - Brighton - Blast @ Concorde 2- a DJ spectacular with sets from Miquette Giraudy, Steve Hillage and Alex Paterson! (not a System 7 live show)
Saturday March 26th - Leeds (UK) - CABBAGE! - Another great night at the West Indian Centre. We loved it!
Saturday April 9th - Elham (Kent, UK) - Late Spring Equinox Shake-Out - with Chris Purusha from Cabbage DJing - A most enjoyable trip to our old Canterbury-area stamping ground!
Friday May 13th - Birmingham - The Bubble Club - an all-night event featuring System 7 with Tristan, Aphid Moon, Astralasia and a fine team of DJs. @ the Sanctuary.

June 24th - 26th - Glastonbury Festival - Thanks to everyone who rocked up to see us play again at the UK's most illustrious music festival! (on the new West Dance Stage in the new Glastonbury Festival Dance Village). And love to all of you who witnessed the first official airing of Mirror System at Glastonbury ID Spiral Chill - We were unveiling our new Mirror System chillout/downtempo project with a special 90 minute after-hours DJ set at the 24hr ID Spiral chill stage in the new Glastonbury Festival Dance Village. Mirror System (Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy) DJ'd at 1.30am on the night of Saturday June 25th.

July 15th - 17th 2005 - Glade Festival - See Pics and Video - We again played on the Main Dance Stage - this time on the Friday (July 15th).

Thursday November 18th - Brighton CONCORDE 2 - see the flyer here. We had a great time at the Concorde previewing our latest 90 minute set.Saturday November 27th - London - THE ROCKET (Holloway Road) - TRIBE OF FROG (special thanks toJason, Zoe and the whole froggi tribe)Friday December 3rd - Manchester University - ACADEMY 3 - With guest DJ ALEX PATERSON

2003 / 4

The Metamorphose NYE Countdown Event was at the futuristic Osanbashi Hall in
Yokohama port Dec 31st. for 4000 people. Also on the bill were our good friends
The Orb, another good friend of ours Phil Hartnoll of Orbital playing a DJ set,
and Mad Professor. Interestingly, this line-up mirrored the first time System
7 played in Japan - at On Air, Tokyo in May 1994 - which featured Orbital, System
7 and Alex Paterson (of The Orb) DJing. We played at half past midnight - just
into 2004! A driving spacey techno set - including several new tracks that will
appear on our new album later in the year. On January 3rd we also played at
a smaller special event at the Spiral Club in central Tokyo in honour of the
great live sound engineer Shiro Ono who recently passed away. He was a major
figure in the Japanese dance music movement, and also a big influence on System
7's sound. It was Ono who recorded our Live CD - Live Transmissions. Ono we
love you.........

Our show at Glastonbury in 2003 was once again truly inspiring for us. We would
like to particularly thanks all who were there - you were a fantastic audience!
As is often the case at Glastonbury we found ourselves playing different things
from most shows. As well, if you were there you maybe noticed some tracks that
sounded unfamiliar. These are new tracks that we are working on for our next
studio album.

2002

We had a magical time in Japan in August 2002. The Liquid Room , with Tsyoshi
DJing, was rammed for the 17th August show. And the decor, especially the extraordinary
display of giant candles by Candle Jun, was amazing.

The following week we went up to the Hotaka Mountain Festival. This was 1500
metres up the mountain at a ski-station. Although this was high summer the festival
started with mist, clouds and light rain. But on the second night (24th-25th
August) the clouds cleared and we could see a beautiful moon and thousands of
stars! The lighting design at the festival was absolutely incredible and so
was the sound quality on the giant PA. System 7, as one of the headliners, played
at the end of the all night session as the sun was coming out. Wow! This was
truly one of our greatest ever shows and a memory we will treasure.

On returning to the UK we played a most enjoyable show at the Off The Tracks
festival in Derbyshire.

We had a great time at Glastonbury Festival 2002. In particular our set in
the Dance Tent on Friday 28th June was one of the best we have ever played.
We'd like to say hi to everyone that was there and thank you for all the good
energy.

We will be arranging more live shows for 2003. Info will be posted on our Latest
News page as soon as shows are confirmed.

The 2 pictures below are from our set at the Summermania all-nighter
at Makuhari, Tokyo on August 18th.

Over the New Year 2000/01 we were in Australia where we played on New Years
Eve at the mighty EARTHCORE
festival in Victoria. Before that, in December we were in Japan where we played
at 2 great parties promted by the TOKIODROME
organisation, with DJ Tsuyoshi Suzuki and Joujouka. We played Dec 8th Japan
- TOKYO (Liquid Room) and Dec 9th Japan - OSAKA (Studio Partita). It was our
4th trip to Japan and definitely the best so far.

In 2000 so we played a limited number of other Live shows, including a few
special sets with Alex Paterson of The Orb
:-

Our live set at Glastonbury on the new open air dance stage (The Glade)
was a hugely inspiring event - one of the best we've done. It's given us a lot
of inspiration for the new album. Thanks to everybody who put together the Glade
Stage - and above all to the 6000 plus people who came to dance on that memorable
evening - the best audience ever.

Thanks also to Eat Static and Hallucinogen who played fantastic sets - what
a night!

1999 was a quiet year for System 7 live, although all the shows were extraordinary.

We played the following shows :-

APRIL 20th Steve's DJ debut at The Annexe, London "Sympathy in Chaos"
with Tsuyoshi Suzuki.

As we've said many times, System 7 live is not at all like a rock concert -
it's stimulating and deep psychedelic party music for party people and people
who want to get high, and we're pleased to say that our tradition has thrived
on these recent shows.

We travelled right across America with the Big Top tour last September and
found a great reception for our live sets at all the shows we played. The biggest
show was in San Bernadino (LA) where there were around 7000 people. There
was a lot of chaos and disorganisation surrounding this tour. We would like
to disassociate System 7 from this and apologize to any of our fans who came
to see us but found they had missed our set or that we were not finally on the
bill. We would also like to apologize for the fact that most of the DJs had
to play sets that were too short - again not of our doing. The overall tone
of the event was way too rock n'roll. But we would like to repeat, the
actual shows we played, as listed above, went great and at all the shows there
was a sizeable possee of System 7 fans. Also one of the highlights for us was
the actual drive across America, through New Mexico and Arizona. Amazing!

We had a great time in Japan in last February. This was our second visit and
we met many great people - including Fumi the Techno Cake Artist who has her
own Web page here.
The Liquid Room has an amazing sound system!

We played at a fantastic Return to the Source event in March which was the
last show with our old set. It was great and fitted in particularily well with
the new set of Tsyoshi Suzuki who has started to use breakbeats in a trance
context.

An enduring favourite in our live set is the track Alpha Wave, which we play
in several different versions, notably a special adaptation using elements of
Richie Hawtin's killer remix. For a brief discussion of what Alpha Waves are
go here.

We debuted the new "Golden Section" set at Pink Pop in Holland and
The Essential Music Festival in Brighton and the new songs worked great! At
both these festivals we played on the same bill as our old colleagues The Orb!

The Brighton festival had an amazing lineup on 7 stages. The other acts that
particularily impressed us included especially Grooverider, the ace drum n'bass
DJ who played some totally strange but completely infectious grooves. People
say drum n'bass is 21st century - well this was like 25th century!! Amazing!!

The new set reached new levels of energy and magic at Glastonbury, where it
was superbly enhanced by John Newsham and Tony Andrews on their amazing 3D soundfield
sound system. We have known John and Tony since the 70s and have followed the
same musical journey into 90s dance music. The BBC recorded most of our set.
We have heard it and it's the best live recording we have ever had. It will
no doubt be released on record at some stage.

Our live approach aims at a 100% pure live dance sound, and recently we have
been using either Gary Young (Leftfield) or John Newsham (Underworld/Funktion
One) to handle the outfront sound depending on who's available. We've also done
many shows with Mickey Mann (Orbital).

We have recently simplified our setup, mixing ourselves on-stage.

A more or less permanent part of our team is Micky English who handles on the
onstage set-up, and also we use either Haydn Crickshank or Johnny Gaskell from
Colour Sound Experiment on lights. They also do lights for Underworld, Eat Static
and Megadog and Tribal Gathering events.